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Chhavi Sachdev

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Chhavi Sachdev is a reporter, producer, and editor who finds herself drawn always to stories of oddities, quirks, and the little man trying to make a big change. And chocolate. When she's not working (and sometimes even when she is) you can find her plotting her next journey, baking, or making mix tapes for friends. She's a science nerd, animal slave, wine snob  and action flick junkie. After living on three continents, she now resides in Mumbai, but her travel case is always packed. 
Stopping diseases like TB starts with a good diagnosis
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Summer song: ‘Pasoori’
Mumbai’s mobile day care centers help enrich children of migrant workers
Abortion rights in India
Tiger-riding heroine returns in an environmental comic
Why is India not condemning Russia? 
Indian mothers advocate for better indoor air quality
Bill to equalize marriage age for men and women in India raises controversy
Remembering Lata Mangeshkar
COVID cancels weddings in India, slashes wedding economy
Traditional Indian weddings have been scaled back or postponed during pandemic
Man says he’s gotten 12 COVID vaccines in India
Schools in India were set to resume. Then came omicron.
Indian elections continue despite surge in COVID-19 cases 
India under lockdown, short on vaccines
Screenshot of "Pasoori" official music video from the Coke Studio, Season 14
Music
‘It is pure magic’: Pakistani song ‘Pasoori’ climbs the charts in India and beyond
In this photo taken Wednesday, April 13, 2011, a graffiti against revealing the gender of unborn fetuses stands outside a clinic in Morena in the Central Indian State of Madhya Pradesh. 
Abortion
India’s abortion law still lacks a rights-based approach, gynecologist says
Superhero Priya fights injustice along with her trusted tiger Sahas.
Environment
Superhero Priya tries to rescue New Delhi from air pollution on Earth Day
President Joe Biden meets virtually with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the South Court Auditorium on the White House campus in Washington, Monday, April 11, 2022. 
Ukraine
Amid war in Ukraine, India maintains ‘strategic partnership’ with Russia
Anuja Bali asks a family in Pashan, Pune about their consumption of liquid petroleum gas.
Energy
India’s Warrior Moms tackle indoor air pollution — ‘the silent killer’ 
People pay tribute in front of a portrait of Lata Mangeshkar, the legendary singer placed on a decorated podium in Kolkata, India, Feb. 7, 2022. 
Music
‘She had an aura’: The world mourns late Indian songstress Lata Mangeshkar
An Indian teen reacts as she receives Covaxin COVID-19 vaccine at a government school in Hyderabad, India, Thursday, Jan. 6, 2022. 
COVID-19
India postpones in-school learning as omicron surges 
a collage of photos from Kashyap's dinner
Food
Cross-border meals connect people from countries in conflict
A woman is talking into a screen next to a microphone in a dark room. On the right, words say, "composer, music producer, singer songwriter Sawan Dutta"
Arts, Culture & Media
This Indian composer’s first hit was a song about Boroline. Now she’s an internet sensation.
Three women stand in a line with their hands on their visibly pregnant stomachs. Their faces are cropped out of the image.
Once the go-to place for surrogacy, India tightens control over its baby industry
nawaz sharif
What’s good for democracy can be bad for stability
Volunteers crouch on the wet sand as they pick up trash from a beach near Mumbai's Versova jetty
Environment
This Mumbai lawyer inspired a massive beach cleanup
Farha Faiz, a lawyer, speaks with the media
Justice
Instant divorce is unconstitutional in India, finally
Child of a sex worker comforts another child of another sex worker.
Justice
For India’s sex trafficking victims, family members often bear part of the blame
Team USA on the kabaddi mat at the World Cup in October
Sports
The ancient sport that mixes tag, wrestling, rugby and chanting
Bottles of squash at a local convenience store
Culture
Why I gave squash, the drink, another chance
Burned bus in Bengaluru, India
Environment
In India’s Silicon Valley, the water wars have turned deadly
Coconut palms in Goa
Environment
An Indian court will decide whether a palm is, in fact, a tree
Vehicles driving along a road
Environment
In parts of India, the heat is scorching, forests are burning and the water is almost out
Men dance as others spray colored powder on them during Holi celebrations in India.
Environment
How do you celebrate Holi in the middle of a drought?
6 Pack Band
Music
A ‘Happy’ song in India has a complicated backstory
Only for Men
Arts
This taxi gives men a sense of what it feels like to travel as a woman in India
Deepa Mehta's "Deck of Cards" sari.
Culture
This is not my mother’s sari
Toxic foam is a reality of life during the rainy season in parts of Bangalore, in eastern India. The foam froths up when rains churn up lakes laced with millions of gallons of residential and industrial pollutants, including phosphate laundry detergents b
Environment
Flaming, frothing lakes in India’s Silicon Valley
Tanzanian police arrest "Ivory Queen"
Justice
A notorious Chinese Ivory trafficker is caught by Tanzanian authorities
People celebrate during the Ganesh festival in Mumbai.
Culture
Why the Ganesh festival is noisy, colorful and insane
A woman laborer watches television inside her house at the compound of a brick factory at Libbar Hari in the northern Indian state of Uttarakhand.
Lifestyle
Have things improved for women in India’s ads? A bit.
Lifestyle
The life of the ideal woman, as seen through the eyes of India’s ‘Mad Men’
A one-horned rhino named Baghekhaity stands next to its 10-day-old calf at a zoo in Guwahati, in the northeastern Indian state of Assam.
Environment
How to save rhinos? By turning their dung into paper.
The horn usage meter called Oren, developed by Indian economist Jayraj Salgaonkar.
Technology
If you want to honk in India, you may have to pay
More than half of women in Mumbai, India don’t have indoor toilets. On average, women hold their bladders for 13 hours each day.
Development
Women in India agitate for their right to pee
Music
A classical Indian musician is transforming hit songs into pop parodies
Conflict & Justice
Raising the Drinking Age in India
Arts, Culture & Media
Mumbai Matchmaker Connects the Disabled
Global Politics
A 2000-year-old business